Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal | The Mad Sauropod and The Plague of Madness Ends | Felix Kargegie YT
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This is probably one of the saddest deaths in the series so far
sad how
@@playingamz1216 Sad how? Did you watch the episode? Even from Spear & Fang's reactions you can tell it was sad.
It felt bad for it...watching a poor animal in so much pain...it looks horrible...I would be so scared and terrified to ever feel that type of pain...
Ironically I think its 1 of the happiest deaths cause that poor thing can finally rest
@@TheSaphireKatana yea but it was kinda painfully death
The best part of Spear's heartbroken reaction is that it is only one of many moments showcasing how he is a gentle soul that hates the needless suffering of other creatures. The show never lets you forget that compassion is just as deeply rooted in his heart as his primal savagery.
“The show never lets you forget that compassion is just as deeply rooted in his heart as his primal savagery.”
Beautifully said. His love and anger are both two sides of the same deep soul coin.
Exactly. He doesn't kill because he wants to do it. He kills because he knows it's what needs to be done in order to survive
@@Sono_zeraiah That probably is why he wanted to fight the Night Feeder when he heard it killing the Triceratops-like dinosaur herd. Unlike most animals who kill because they need it to survive, the Night Feeder was merely killing for the sporting amusement of it, and that betrayal of the necessary bloodshed enraged Spear. The same applies to the Ape Men, they were fighting and killing gladiator-style out of sick enjoyment instead of necessity.
Its death is a somber moment as it burns to ash while failing to escape the lava, Spear feeling sorry for the creature 1:12
At least all the suffer is gone now...
Spear would think "may your soul found peace poor creature"...
It is so refreshing to see an adult American cartoon that isn't a gross-out comedy.
Even kids American cartoons of the late 90’s and early 2000’s, knew how to be serious. Around 2008 is when kids cartoons became gross out it was annoying
*NETFLIX*
...it's a gross-out horror/tragedy, and i love every second of it.
Fucking Agree
Arvak777 ...... did... you even watch shows in the 90s...?? Rugrats? Ren and Stimpy? Cow and Chicken?????
What I love about this is it’s not hatred or fear in Fang and Spears eyes at the end it’s pity, with both of them just going “please please just stop let yourself go”
And the noise it made right before it's ash's blew away. It was at peace finally and felt like a "thank you.."
@@playerofchaos6000 an almost cry of what it used to be before it was driven mad
72. Like 2 comments let me fix that
At least all the suffer is gone now...
What makes this tragic and sad is that the sauropod was innocent from the beginning, he didn't choose any of this, he was unlucky to be a victim of the whims of the world in which he lives. And it turned a peaceful creature into a monster with any control of his actions.
He wasn't even conscious of anything till the very end when the heat killed the virus and started his last screams of agony.
At least....he found the peace he needed....
They realized that whatever did this to that sauropod wasn’t its own fault, but the sheer tenacity of whatever it was(they had no way of knowing it was a virus), following them and attempting to kill them despite its own state of being and the punishment it inflicted upon itself was something that horrified them
The fact that it still rushes at them after climbing out of a lava pit, with all it's skin falling off.. Really shows how determined and vicious the parasite is
The thing that interests me most about this plague of madness, is that we can’t even be entirely sure of what it is...
Looking at it from a more logical standpoint, it seems to be more magical than biological. no LIVING creature should be capable of sustaining those wounds without being incapacitated, but as we saw, it kept going. It makes me thing that more than being a parasite, that it could have been some kind of curse or dark magic.
0:13 you can see it’s tail go under the lava, meaning it swam underneath the surface just to get to them. Freaky
@@noneshallknowmyname
I feel like it’s both. as in, it’s a parasite, virus, bacteria, or fungi that was mysteriously enhanced by dark magic
If the plague of madness existed I wouldn't even wanna live anymore
@@noneshallknowmyname Seems just like any classic zombie besides being slow but also less durable, the parasaur died from snapped spine so brain damage isn't only thing lethal. Tho besides the fall none of the injures would really be insta kill for sauropod either. The laval and scraped flesh from sides would still allow living for short duration.
i love the fact that you can tell the roars are no longer of ferocity and madness, but of pure agony as it gets one last moment of mental clarity as the heat kills the virus in its brain, the feeling of pain returning to it for its last moments
A)Your comment deserves more likes.
B) That's fucken depressing.
Maybe but its eyes are still in the viral state if you look closely.
It's so damn sad when you think about it like that. All that damage to it's body, the rotten flesh, the exposed bones, the cuts, bruises, the flames engulfing it's body, and the heat killed the virus allowing the sauropod to return to it's senses long enough to feel every single bit of pain before it finally dies.. holy shit
You're completely wrong.
cool headcanon bro
It was this day that Spear had learned. There are fates worse than death.
I mean imagine if they didn’t do anything? that poor thing would of stayed killing other animals while in a constant agonizing pain through the rest of its life
Just Imagine how long it would take to decay. And I'm pretty sure if this thing dies the virus still lives unless killed when taking over.
Easy there raiden
Rip
There are times when a relatively quick death is the best mercy. Zombie Dino definitely made that list.
Gendy did an amazing job with the final scene. He communicated so well that even though Spear and Fang survived, this wasn't a victory. There was no glory in this death - only sadness.
Sadness but necessary...
And Survival.
Honestly I'd say there was glory. They prevented it from infecting others and i wholly believe that if it still had desires and faculties it would want to die.
@@noabsolutelynot3660 I don't think that's the right way to put glory. Glory is 'magnificence, and great beauty' in one definition, and what happened to that poor creature was far from glorious or beautiful.
If you listen closely at 1:35, you'll hear the Sauropod making a noise as if in relief, as if he's happy to be able to die and finally be free of the damned disease, in fact, during the incineration, I can actually hear "Thank You".
R.I.P. sweet and innocent Sauropod.
I heard the "Thank You" too
I heard it too; it was also living a fate worse than death.
It’s scary how it took nature itself to kill the infection. Spear and Fang just ran. It took a volcano to do the job and end this sad and pitiful monster.
Luck that the lava cooked the body before they touched it. If it wasn't for that, they probably would have gotten infected.
Wait “pitiful”? That term is normally use as an insult. What about the innocent sauropod who got infected against its will is pitiful?
@@apachegaming255
pit·i·ful
/ˈpidēfəl/
adjective: pitiful
deserving or arousing pity
It’s been used often as a sarcastic insult, but it’s actual meaning is more on the sympathetic side
@@couragew6260 I see. Thanks for the info & apologies for the judgmental outlook on your comment.
@@apachegaming255
It’s all good
I'm so happy this show won 3 Emmy awards. Because this show is definitely up there on how to tell a decent story with no dialogue.
Tahuaroa Ohia nice
3 son muy pocos
soon itll get more suprising accolades
Tartakovsky's is a master at telling stories mostly by visuals. Like Samurai Jack and the 2003 Clone Wars show.
@@yurilouback6331 He is the master of Show don't tell. To many scenes to name from his cartoons that are just amazing.
Keep in mind: Spear and Fang have no idea what this is.
They don’t know it’s a virus or plague. To them, it must have seemed like the Dinosaur just went mad, and was transformed into a unfeeling, murdering machine against its will.
True, but they also know that whatever did this to it was clearly nothing they had any experience with, but they knew the creature clearly shouldn’t be able to do anything in the condition it was in, yet it was. This experience was completely outside their realm of understanding, and they had no way to deal with it, before or after their experience with the plague.
And people wonder why we believed in the supernatural
Spear at least understands it has the ability to infect others
They know what sickness is, fang sniffs the dead dinosaurs in the beginning and is taken back, she smells the sickness
There is some understanding here. Spear has his dream of getting infected, so he probably has some form of experience with this.
1:57
I don't know about you, guys... but in my opinion, on this moment, when that little ember fell gently on Spear's hand, it felt like it was the Sauropod's spirit saying "Thank you for helping me ending my suffering".
❤❤❤🎉😢
I think it makes him realize that the sauropod has no control over his actions
Especially how it goes from the flaming red to the dull blue the sauropod was before
You can tell just from there faces that this is going to haunt them until they die
This will be the most traumatic moment I've ever been in my whole lige
Wait what year is this?
like the walking dead game
Their expressions at the end definitely fit, with the horror they have just witnessed.
Haunt them? This is gonna haunt us till we die.
Me at the start of the epsiode: alright boys bust out the cigars and then kill that thing
Me at the end: it was just a victim it never asked for this
My dad before and after he whipped me
@@slugnpc4257 we dont need to know about child abuse here
@@evastarunit7361 Yo, total respect, sorry bro.
@@slugnpc4257 no prob man
No practice story
I love how spear was given a nightmare in this episode. Not of dying, but to become like that thing.
They were distinctly more terrified of sharing that agonizing immortality than of death.
Well, it HAS been confirmed that the Plague of Madness is one of the few things that Spear was actively afraid of… so that makes total sense. I mean, Lord knows I’d NEVER wanna die like that!
0:22 just realized that spear is looking at the lower part of the sauropod’s ribs, which means the entire body cavity is completely empty. Yet the poor thing is still alive.
I know... it's just horrible. Nothing is keeping it alive. Just whatever this sickness is
It wasn't live actually, but dead in life
It's because this Sauropod is a *ZOMBIE!*
Primal is so brutal that even its absolutely badass protagonists are shocked by its brutality.
No shet
@@iamthepunisher47 shut up twat
@Saruv Bet *flips table*
@Saruv Bet No u
Considering it's a cartoon basically, it seems more brutal than even Doom
Genndy said it best during the pitch meeting, "The creature was innocent in all this," and I gotta say he did a masterful job at crafting a truly one of a kind experience that is both terrifying and saddening at the same time.
I do love that regardless of it being turned into one of the worst monsters in the show, you still feel sorry for it. The pain it must be feeling and the fact it is an innocent soul who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I do also love that it at least seems like Spear knows this and also feels sad for it as it finally is put to rest (Albeit in a horrifying way...)
Where you heard of Genndy’s words on this, James?
@@GhANeC He says it right here on this video of the animatic of the episode which someone posted on youtube. watch right here, czcams.com/video/pBTqBrYhVCA/video.html
its not the sauropod's fault he got infected
@@princechadronquillo8072 yeah but that was the point. Spear didn’t understand this intill the end.
I liked how they weren’t triumphant after defeating the sauropod. They both looked like they were confused by what happened but also empathetic with the monster’s fate. This show is amazing.
Plague of Madness and Coven of the Damned have the best endings. The sheer contrast of Lula finally getting her redemption and meeting her daughter again in the afterlife, and the sauropod who had no control of their actions also getting the peace they needed after so much pain it's just amazing.
The Night Feeder was great too.
I would argue, the sarupod never actually got his peace, he died with no remains left, in an unmarked grave, in absolute agony. Not actually lying down in peace but thrashing about until his last embers floated away in the sky
@@comradecommissar8223 in a way that's poetic the diseases is the villian a monster that could not be killed normally but in the end it was all burned away to be forgotten about, Lula died painfully I'm sure but in the end she reunited with her daughter, this poor creature might have been in agony and might even have been seeing everything going on around it whilst not being able to control its self so as it burned away turning into ash maybe that ash will grow new life it's poetic because in time the disease will die off in time it will no longer be around it will turn to ash and float away to be forgotten and never remembered a fitting end for a ceaseless monster don't you think?
@@comradecommissar8223 Don't forget that he also killed his entire herde, including the eggs of the unborn Argentinosaurus, some of which may very well have been his own children.
The one with the mammoths grieving for the elder mammoth was the saddest one for me with this one
It wouldn't stop howling in agony until it literally, physically couldn't anymore.
Jesus.
Not agony but sheer rage and lust to infect and kill
The pained screams passed a while ago. Which is still horrific
@@ColdNorth0628 It did look like it was in pain when it squeezed trough the narrow opening.
I doubt a zombie would/could feel pain
@@cthulhufhtagn3210 Well, it just looked like it.
Not just that it wouldn't stop howling, but as the episode goes on, and it sustains damage, its howls get more and more warped until they barely sound like a living thing.
The thing that gets me is when Spear lands on the Sauropod's back and sees that there is literally *nothing* left inside of it.
It shouldn't be alive. It can't be alive. It is physically *impossible* for this creature to be alive. But it's still alive, just as much to it's own grief as it is to his and Fang's.
It's the plague effect!
At this point I’d expect zombie dinosaur out of it lol
That thing, that plague. Something like that shouldn't be allowed to exist, it was a perversion of life. Molded and twisted into something ugly and nonviable.
Its Still there, We event dont know what Causing the Tiny Dino To be like that.
@@GloriG_C17 the same thing that happened to the sauropod, duh
An infected comes, bites the host, new host search for a new suitable body for the plague
Didn't infect the other sauropods cause probably the process of infection requires the individual to still be alive before taking over the body and a sauropod like that literally one shotted all his fellow sauropods killing them instantly leaving nothing but dead meat
If the plague comes back in the series and it might since we don't know who was the patient 0,things might actually get really bad in primal, even after the witch things and that crap
The music had no right to go that hard at the end, but it did anyway. Those strings are so goddamn heavy and somber. This isn’t a triumphant moment, it’s sad and depressing. What a majestic and powerful beast to be brought so horribly low, only to die such an agonizing death. This is the argentinosaur’s swan song
I love this comment!! I dare to say that those strings are the work of a Cello, i feel like the Tempo From the song and the bass tones of this is what tie everything together with the animation, I feel like they show the desperation of the once gentle giant, forced to go against his own peaceful nature, Being a rotten and twisted carcass of a morbid disease
And nothing more perfect to describe it like the "swan song"
Even Spear knows how gentle those Sauropods are.
I love how their expressions change from pure terror to pure sorrow as they watch it burn... I feel sorry for that poor creature
Its death is a somber moment as it burns to ash while failing to escape the lava, Spear feeling sorry for the creature 1:12
Eidahn jace Antonio
The demonic plauge deserved to suffer , the innocent sauropod that got infected didn't deserve this .
Fang always has the same expression. While she's quite intelligent, i doubt she could feel the same way as Spear does
@@peterdurum434 actually I found out from watching JW1 that the skull of a dinosaur is a type of optical illusion.
For example: After the 2 kids jumped into the water the I-Rex was looking down the waterfall & the angle of the camera made it look like it had a sinister/maniacal grin.
The saddest thing about this villain is the fact that it was never evil or vicious it was just a victim infected by a virus
This is easily one of the most horrifying, AND brilliant pieces of animation ive ever seen.
That's what Genndy does.
@Worldln Madness you are right
This makes me want to watch primal but stay away at the same tiij me XD
@@rioking4914 i know.
this was amazing and scary cause it kept coming through the lava
This poor creature was suffering so terribly. I'm glad the plague died with it and that it finally found peace. Respect to Spear and Fang for remaining rather than leaving it to die alone.
I honestly don’t think the virus died with this Dino, remember the time he puked all of his blood into that pool of water? There’s a chance of a Dino drinking that water and becoming infected
I love Spear's expressions. Like, this isn't a proud moment, another foe vanquished, this is a creature that has been tortured and made into a monster not by it's own choice, but because of the whims of the cruel world it lives in. And look at how gently he cups the ember in his hand, it together with the sadness in his eyes make it so that even though he doesn't say a word, you know he's thinking "rest in peace poor soul". Man this animation is so great, it's so simple yet effective at showing what it wants to get across.
It's as they say: "The nicest is also the most terrifying when enraged".
That shit's nightmare fuel. Seeing the most kind of animals turned into a constantly suffering killing machine against his will is... horrible...
Yeah, happens more often than you think with other animals as well, especially us.
Yes u dont even know how true that concept is it's why I'm typing this from in jail charged for murder.
@@chosenone2926 same.
turtle liar
@@chosenone2926 i'm a turtle murderer actually.
Love how even when the Sauropod was driven completely mad and had killed off so many, the character still acknowledge that it was simply a unfortunate being. They had the empathy to look beyond their own fear and the bloodshed to see their suffering and actually feel for them, to know that none of it truly was their fault is just purely amazing.
So much better than treating the poor thing as some murderous monster that deserved to be killed and celebrate in it.
The poor Sauropod was trapped within his own body, looking through his eyes while he has no control over his own body. As soon as the plague hits you, it takes your mind and shunts it to the far reaches of your brain, basically it made you into a backseat rider in your own body. The animal was tormented as the plague forced it to kill his own herd, and when it left him, he suffered being burned.
@@voyagingwithvincent1994 It basically turned the rests of the Sauropod's life into a bloodshed horror dream, until he died
I think it's because seeing such a unstoppable monster reduced to nothing made them realise that the real thing to fear is the world itself. The planet itself was more powerful and monstrous than any beast they would face.
@@jeramahia123 Indeed. No other beast that Spear encounters can deal with the Plague; not the giant therapods, not the Ape Men, not even the Night Feeder. The only entity that can erase the Plague... is the very earth that balances all known life. The sauropod was an innocent animal, and Fang and Spear were running for their lives. It was the Plague that was to blame, and only a force of destruction even greater could cleanse it.
This series is so beautiful even in its most dark and bloody moments. It isn't afraid to hit you hard!
Which makes sense.
Prehistoric times were likely fraught with Chaos, with raw "Primal" energy everywhere.
From the threat of being crushed underfoot by a large Plant eater.
To being chased by a Meat eating monster!
To strange diseases that likely sprang up everywhere as the world rapidly changed.
I feel this Series captures that Chaos Perfectly.
The way Spear handles this whole situation is pretty interesting. He knows that the fact that this Camarasaurus looks like it clearly in pain yet knows this creature also means them immense harm. He shows actual concern when he noticed that ribs were exposed and that THIS should not be happening. Just the way this whole episode was done was absolutely disturbing and fascinating all at the same time. As much as I dont want to see an animal, even animated, Puking up gallons of its own blood trying to satiate its burning insides, I need to know how this originated! How did the Parasaurolophus get infected!? This needs to be explored by the show further!
It's a Argentinosaurus but yeah your right. The galloons of blood is actually liquified insides btw.
Understanding the plague's origins would damage some of the horror to it though, since the unknown is something we fear.
@@jar_knight very true. Very true indeed. Either way, we need more on this lol maybe a spin-off
No
No, it doesn't need to be explored The Plague is obviously depicted as a Lovecraftian cosmic horror; even intelligent cavemen like Spear are unable to truly comprehend how terrifying and unstoppable it really is (even in Spear's nightmare, he only fears the fact that the Plague melts its targets when in fact the true terror is that the Plague makes its victims go insane with bloodlust). The Plague doesn't need an origin story, because that's not what kind of entity it is.
Fang doesn't really have the same range of expression that Spear does, usually just variations of angry, sad, hungry, pained, and comfortable. that look at 1:06, that tiny wide-eyed frozen stare, I don't think we've seen her horrified like that before.
Because in her mind, she's thinking "I have no idea what happened to it, but it's *NOT* natural, at all." She and Spear were were dealing with something far beyond their own understanding and that can cause some cases of Xenophobia (Fear of the Unknown).
I love the expressions of absolute terror and existential despair they have as they bare witness to the horror.
The scariest part about this episode? No explanation on where the virus came from
As HP Lovecraft used to say.
The biggest fear of humankind is the fear to the unknow.
@@mrrm5201 exactly
Whatever the fuck that was, we don’t know
Something tells me that they'll probably reveal how the plague came to be. But I do believe that an actual demonstration on how this disease came into existence wouldn't have a bigger impact than what this horrifying episode delivered.
Dead
@@slimjim877 I think it's rabies because there were giant demon bat things and they might have bit the paralophosuaurus but it escaped.
I legit felt chills down my spine, so utterly terrifying, yet so sorrowful. This is truly the place where legends cry.
What's horrifying to think about is if the Sauropod had awareness. It knew everything it was doing, felt everything but had no control whatsoever. It could've died in agony with no power whatsoever to save itself
Well it's with it's herd now in the afterlife and don't saw that the sauropod is in hell
True, but I don’t think it was aware. I don’t think it was alive at all, by that point, no creature could sustain wounds like that and keep going for as long as it did.
I truly believe that the sickness wasn’t biological, but more magical...like, it was more of a curse or some kind of dark magic. It became a literal moving corpse, which makes me think that the original creature was already long gone
Yeah but something’s got to be driving it right? It can’t just be a mindless thing without a soul as it became more desperate to kill them.
When you realize that, mentally and physically, this dinosaur's final days, not just his death, were nothing but pure agony and suffering, enough to horrify even a ferocious predator like a T-Rex.
Is Fang a T-Rex though?
@@milesromanus7041 fang is a mother t rex
@@goblin3794 I mean she seems a bit small for a T rex
@@milesromanus7041 im pretty sure shes only a juvenile, it would be cool if she got bigger as the series went on
I'm more sure that Fang is a Nanotyrannus. One of the first ancestors/cousins of Tyranosaurus gene tree. Fang is too small to be a T-rex but if she's a Nanotyrannus that will make more sense.
This music in this scene was perfect! Really made you feel the haunting sadness of what the plague brings
I know right! It makes you wonder what is the name of the song of it.
Yes and such sadness
I think it was a act of mercy to it
Dragon Emperor it was but you still felt the horror of hearing it scream before it was reduced to ashes. If this is anything to go off, I can’t wait to see season 2!
kai9755 no I don’t but when it was about to become a zombie that’s when I felt really bad for it but at the end it’s just a zombie trying to get to them and it is still screaming at them and also fang is still alive in episode 5 she’s just unconscious
I love that moment when Spear’s eyes widen when a piece of the sauropod lands on his hand. It’s like at that moment he truly realized the horror that had taken over this gentle giant and turned into a near-unstoppable force.
You can tell Fang and Spear feel horror, pity and sadness for the poor sauropod, who is normally a gentle creature, acting completely opposite of its nature. It's impressive how much emotion is packed into this scene without a single word being spoken.
I genuinely love how throughout this entire episode, Spear and Fang, who are NO strangers to gnarly shit by this point, appropriately react to everything like this is the worst, most horrible thing they have EVER seen.
I think it's because everything they've seen so far, be it good or bad, has been natural
This was the opposite of natural
One of the more brilliant subtleties is Spear is shown to have no actual idea what he's dealing with, but he knows it's something that should not be. You don't need to understand advance germ theory, or even know what cooking food is to understand a walking corpse isn't natural.
@@juannaym8488 if we ignore the black sludge that turns you superhuman, which is way more calmer then this shit, then yeah.
@@rosineidedossantossilvasil1592 I still have no idea how the hell that happened. like how did they get it?
@@bluebunny2133 I’ve heard theories that black substance is the same essence that made Haku.
That death was an utter mercy. This was the prehistoric version of The Thing coming at Spear and Fang... something incomprehensible, implacably hostile, and utterly *WRONG.* And like The Thing, the only thing that ultimately stopped it was fire.
Even more than fire this creature was basically stuck in a giant blast furnace and it nearly escaped the volcano! Luckily it jumped causing the final magma dunk
After everything spear had been through it really sticks with you seeing him become so horrified and traumatized by this creature. His reaction reminds me of the “thousand yard stare” developed by soldiers suffering from ptsd from combat. You can just tell this is something that will haunt him forever and its all done without a single word which is impressive.
The fact that It can fall into molten lava and still cry out and function genuinely scares me, along with the fact that it is literally rotting and deteriorating whilst being in the lava and it still attempts to get back out as if it's just a scratch.
At that point it was long since dead; the amount of things it walked away from plus being virtually empty of organs and all the stuff that makes living possible confirms it. Pain isn't an issue when you're dead. At that point it was just the plague furiously mashing away at whatever it had left.
After all the pain it went through, it still had to keep going.
Many refer to this stuff as "lava", but I don't think that was the case. I got the impression that the stuff in this scene was boiling sulfur, which explains why it was behaving like a liquid rather than a thick, heavy sludge like lava would.
That would explain the sauropod was able to survive falling into it multiple times. But then this show's physics have never been consistent with reality.
The physics maybe different, but it is very close to realistic physics at least
At least before breaking through to lava at the end…
That makes sense to me, especially because Spear got nicked with it and aside from a surface burn, seemed okay. I feel like molten rock would have clung to the skin as it cooled and burned even deeper. And if this was actually lava, that poor sauropod would have gone up in flames seconds after being submerged, nor could it have moved through it quickly enough to break through stone.
I don’t think so. There are multiple different kinds of lava. You’re thinking of felsic magmas, which are super viscous because of the arrangement of silica in its structure, but mafic magmas have little to no silica, and if they do, they aren’t bonded as tightly as the felsic varieties. And if you look at the cooled surface, it’s black, like basalt or gabbro, which is an indicator of a mafic magma. More felsic magmas like granite, rhyolite, or andesite, cool to a much lighter gray, or even reddish color. Think of the Hawaiian islands, as it’s mafic eruptions are highly effusive and can cover large areas incredibly quickly, as opposed to say an eruption from the Andes (hence Andesite).
I strangely adore how not even Fang can tear her eyes from the burning lake left behind by this poor creature. She and Spear have needed to hunt and kill to survive their entire lives, but while we would expect Spear to feel empathy as he is human like us and we can expect that from him, seeing that pure terror being washed away by completely horrified sorrow in even the Tyrannosaur Fang is such a beautiful, tragic touch.
The Sauropod's fate was so cruel, so horrifying, so unnatural that not even she could fully come to terms with it. The animal that evolved to crush and tear through its prey with its powerful bite couldn't stomach the death this beautiful animal had to suffer, nor look away as it burned to cinders
Fang: so much meat gone to waste... T_T
Both of them were probably also expecting some even weirder stuff to happen and the chase to continue.
@@4piecespicy589 Girl, I don't think you wanna eat that. lmao
Eh
@@xxMiraclesMay Of course not… it’s not fully cooked yet
You can tell by Spear and Fang's looks as this poor creature is being roasted alive in the hot lava, that not only are they shocked that it's STILL going, doing everything in it's power to get them, but has little regard for its own life anymore. And this experience is probably something that will haunt them for the rest of their days. And who wouldn't be freaked out by something like this?
They barely escaped it too many times to count. And we still don't know where this disease came from. It makes me wonder if it was made by those witches in the next episode or if it was caused by contaminated food or water.
This sauropod is literally the freakiest and most interesting terror I've seen, and I've seen hundreds of the scariest horror movies... something about this sauropod is just, so daunting
Theoretical: Spear reaching for the zombie sauropod's ash remains symbolizes/is meant to show that he understands that not only was zombie sauropod just a victim of whatever it was drove it mad, but that he recognizes that just like him and Fang, it too suffered the loss of its family, albeit at the hands of the madness rather than the jaws of a predator.
Deep man
Spear and Fang watching the diseased Argentinosaurus burn in lava and disintegrate into ashes, the former mournful that they had to kill it. Even Fang's expression looks like one of pity as the monster howls in dying agony. The somber music during this scene sets the sad tone even further.
@@hattanalshutaifi4587 I agree with you
Damn... this shit deep
I think it's him trying to make a connection between death (and the fire or brightness that may come after it) and the cold mundane reality that an ash is just an ordinary thing like him.
This thing threw up gallons of blood and large quantities of its organs, ran through an entire forest without stopping, fell down a presumably 100 foot tall cliff, ran full force into canyon walls, tore off dozens of pounds of it's own flesh, was cooked alive, and was only stopped by literally swimming in a lava lake until it was reduced to a pile of ashes.
That plague turned that sauropod into an unstoppable killing machine. It would literally destroy itself just trying to get to you. This plague is something not to be taken lightly.
I'm assume The Plague turns his victim into a kind of zombie mix with rabies, incapable of feel pain but in a constant state of rage that only can be appeased by killing everything that get closer.
@@estrellaescobar5723 Given the constant stream of tears and it's non-stop screaming, I'm sure this thing was in constant pain the entire time and just couldn't do anything about it as the disease ate away at it and made it crazy.
When a Zombie is reduced to 0 Hit-Points, it must make a Comstitution saving throw of 5+the damage taken (unless this damage was a critical hit or from radiant damage) If it passes, it returns to it’s feet with 1 hit point. Otherwise, it does as normal.
A creature THAT big must have a hell of a CON modifier!
Wait! It threw up it's blood in the lake it vomited in? No wonder why when it's skin around its side was torn off it looked so empty.
This was the first episode for me, and honestly I've never felt so sad for the undead.
It was a slave to its disease that kept it alive. Talk about brutal...
Tartakovsky can play our feelings like a fiddle. He can make a monster that will strike fear in our heart for the whole episode until he decides to make us feel sorry for it. He made a village of warrior people who enslaved others and called for no compassion, but the grief of the chief was so human that you can't help but feel a little sorry for him. The one and only character we NEVER EVER feel anything but hate for is the queen.
Tartakovsky made me feel sympathy for a zombie dinosaur
You talented minipuletive bastard
He did,and did it friggin excelent
R.I.P. camarasaurus
I doubt it was zombified.
THUNDER ee Argentinosaurus
@@apachegaming255 DOUBT!? did you see it’s flesh wounds and how it didn’t behave naturally!? It literally tried eating it’s own kind!? It was definitely zombified and the worst part was we have no idea how or why that virus just spread or where it came From!
Can we all just appreciate how incredible this episode was.
The music.
The tension building.
The ending.
This show is better than some multi million dollar movies and it has basically no dialogue.
Give this man the rights to Conan the Barbarian and let him loose.
AMEN TO THAT!
I really hope Season 2 lives up to Season 1. Even though Spear and Fang are complete badasses in a world like this all it takes is one bad enough injury and that's it. It really keeps you on edge because of how fragile they really are despite all that Spear and Fang have accomplished and survived.
Sometimes the strongest impacts are through actions.
Yes
Genndy said in an interview to have been effectively inspired by Conan the Barbarian.
remember, all the emotions you feel watching this are from zero dialog. i sometimes forget about it, and its just so impressive and proves that Tartakovsky has mastered the art of animation
Saw a clip from this on Reddit and had to find the rest. Zombie stories usually isn’t arent jam but this one caught my attention and held it from start to finish. I always thought zombie stories were more tragic and disturbing than “scary” and this one absolutely underscores that point. I was not expecting the ending to be so emotional and gripping but here we are. Fantastic.
“Hey what’s creepier than a rage virus zombie sauropod?”
“Hmm... a crispy fried rage zombie sauropod that’s STILL GOING AFTER THEM.”
Extra crunch?
Deep Fried?
reminds me of part 7 jason
In halo 3 the flame thrower also seemed like a good idea against the flood... untill you have burning zombie brutes jumping at you...
Of course!
I love that they don’t have stoic faces that a protagonist in this kinda animation would usually have, they’re genuinely terrified and that’s amazing
Western Animated Characters have some of the traits. Spear, the caveman in this series as an example. There is the moment that He is out of character in certain conditions. In this episode, a zombie sauropod stampedes through the ground, trampling everything, and shakes the ground. None of the creature would stand up against this zombified gigantic sauropod. It is the perfect scene to express Dread, Sheer Terror, and Agony because the sauropod was still alive.
Another example is Charles Calvin from Henry Stickmin Series VG. Charles is a casual veteran helicopter pilot who is working with the government's army. He is obedient, easygoing, and stoic, and he is usually has a casual danger dialogue especially when his impending doom (even seconds before the moment he dies). However, the moment he have to drop his stoic and casual attitude is when he sacrifices his own life to save Henry Stickmin, just to subdue the Toppat Clan Rookie who is looking for the emergency escape pod.
"AND HE SHALL SMITE THE WICKED AND PLUNGE THEM INTO A FIERY PIT!!!!"
-Judge Claude Frollo
"The flame is the breath of the soul
Black smoke is the liberation of the soul
ashes though wert and art
may the soul return to the great flame of fire"
-The fire force prayer
The chase scene and his reactions are terrifying to a great extent
This is both the saddest and most metal thing I've ever seen. Gendy you brilliant bastard don't you dare stop making things.
I want him to just keep doing these episodes for primal.. it's one of the best show ive seen even if every episode takes 1 month.. I really don't want him to end it just continue it untill the end of the journey for spear or fang.. then conclude.. it's such a fascinating story with so much originality and creativity.. my god I hope I'll be able to work with him some day.. as an animator..
Keep him away from Sony Pictures, I don’t want him making another Hotel Transylvania. He should stick with Cartoon Network Studios.
Spear and Fang watching the diseased Argentinosaurus burn in lava and disintegrate into ashes, the former mournful that they had to kill it. Even Fang's expression looks like one of pity as the monster howls in dying agony. The somber music during this scene sets the sad tone even further
*"There are some things far more frightening than death"* The Grand Inquisitor
a deathless death
As a fellow Star Wars fan, I approve this message
This might be star wars originally but a 40k inquisitor also agrees
It's the final, mournful cry just as the clip ends that I find most chilling. Although the creature's agony should be over, that cry still echoes out. I take it as the despair clinging to Spear and Fang, and perhaps Spear imagining what the creature's soul sounds like - haunted and lost, but given the small dignity of sounding the way a living sauropod should sound.
They managed to capture the look of someone realizing they just witnessed something simultaneously horrifying and tragic. The sort of thing that, in your quietest moments, you will remember and weep.
Even though we feared the sauropod we felt sorry for the poor beast when it’s body turned to ash. It used to have a family, it used to be alive, it used to be an amazing creature turned into a monster
Rrrr
At least it's suffering is at an end
It’s not suffering anymore.
Just the way its mind was completely consumed by the disease, so too was its body by the flames.
One of the most tragic deaths in the series.
I'm actively sobbing right now.. The show deserves every award.
The very fact that he held out his hand and caught a piece of ash in his palm seem to symbolize that he won't forget the sauropod and will always carry it with him, giving it a kind of peace and the knowledge it will never be alone. But that's just me lol
I see it in a more disturbing light that this event will be a memory that will haunt him forever.
I like to think that Spear understands that it, like him and Fang, suffered the loss of its family at the cruel hands of fate, and that it was the madness that caused it to kill the rest of the sauropod herd.
I think in its final moments, the sauropod regained its sanity as the plague was burned away. That’s why the flake was a slight blue color at the end
@@zacharylocke5512 holy shit you're right! What an observation there. That makes it that much more saddening.
@@zacharylocke5512 0:27 well its even crying in this shot
The battle-hardened, near-emotionless Spear, who exacted an actual genocide on the ape tribe, was almost brought to tears by the sight of the agonizing, dying sauropod. That's how touching the sauro's fate was. 😥
I mean to be fair the apes started it
Well i’m not sure about near emotionless, spear can be stoic during a hunt but expresses himself quite a bit.
Let's be honest, most of us were revelling in the genocide of the ape-men, they deserved it.
What do you mean emotionless? Spear has been seen crying, furious, content, worried, scared, and utterly in love multiple times in the series.XD
that profile pic tho 🤣
Terrifying death for a terrifying creature who just wanted peace, who then turned into a blood curdling murderous mindless animal, who then turned into flames and ash. truly just the saddest moment in this entire series.
The fact that the sickness was so maddening that it allowed such a creature to jump is terrifying
So...........
This is hell
I need context I’ve just been seeing some sauropod burning and eating everyone idek is this a show
@@FossilBite Its a show called Primal in this episode an Argentinasaurus was eating when a strange Parasaurolophus was there screaming then the Parasaurolophus bites the Argentinasaurus and then the Argentinasaurus became a type of zombie and killed the other Argentinasaurus and them eggs
And thats when the protagonists found all the dead Argentinasaurus
Annnnd the zombie
Clearly.
@@FossilBite Look at this review czcams.com/video/rGQ_KjfVNNc/video.html
thanks for explaining guys i was so confused if this was just an animation for fun or a show or something lol
You know this is traumatic when even the T-Rex, a savage predator, is horrified by this
I just don't understand why it didn't melt instantly, and it's clearly not invulnerable against lava as he did melt later, it's really terrifying that it looks like a dying demon that's trying to drag whatever it can into hell with it
@@dimensionvisitor7689 well in real life if you fell in lava you wouldn’t sink you would just slap the top and burn
@@terrenvestal2445 but this is a 55-110 ton dinosaur we are talking about, you think it can float on top of lava?
@@dimensionvisitor7689 it's density that makes you sink a 50+ ton mass spread out to a 20-30 meter body area is not that dense so yeah it could float and also lava is not really that hot enough to melt through things
@@dimensionvisitor7689 well I didn’t really think of that so idk. My bad😅😅
Just when I thought it couldn’t get more horrific… it did. Then I thought that’s the end of it… it wasn’t. And only then would I witness a horror I FUCKING ADORE!
This is a masterpiece!!!
I won't lie, the way of how the sauropod was depicted when it got infected was truly and utterly terrifying; even more so when it first started out as a peaceful giant that was at the wrong place at the wrong time and was forced to brutally kill and destroy everything around its surroundings while the virus ate away at its brain, becoming nothing more than a lifeless husk as it continued to destroy everything it came into contact with.
Now, if I were to make a comparison to this kind of scenario, I would have to go with Shin Godzilla. Think about it: a peaceful creature was at the wrong place at the wrong, became infected, (in this case, came into contact with nuclear radiation), started mutating with no way to control it, evolved into something more horrific as time went on, and eventually started destroying everything in its wake. All the while being in a constant state of pain and suffering, as they did not wish for this kind of agony and had no way of ending their existence.
Me too, i remember shin godzilla too.
The only difference is that both products came from different countries, one is a movie the other is an animated series and primal is better than shin godzilla
Its death is a somber moment as it burns to ash while failing to escape the lava, Spear feeling sorry for the creature 1:12
thats dark
@@SIMBA-tq2ch comparing the 2 is completely stupid, they're vastly different pieces of media setting out to do vastly different things. Shin and Primal only have 1 thing in common and that is they are exceptional pieces in their respective genres
I like the detail at 0:21 where Spear is horrified that the Sauropod is completely empty inside, no organs or blood, just a hollow shell of its former self
Thats what kind of confuses me, that basically means that its legit just bones with rotten skin on it
I mean it did vomit it guts out (literally) in the lake earlier in the episode
@@ivory7604 how could it be moving is what confuses me
@@thattonekid2842 it still had its muscles
@@thattonekid2842 parasites are able to controll a body even though it's organs are gone at that point the parasite is the organ
I feel like Spear just realized this actually happened, him holding that burnt flake made him wake up in a sense. You know when life doesn’t feel real and you can’t really tell if you’re dreaming or not? Sure Spear *did* have a dream before this, but I never think until now did he get the time to process it.
What i love about season 1 is that Spear and Fang rarely ever "solve" the problem of a given episode. They just get away. Where the hell did this plague come from? Is it still out there? How can the sauropod still be alive with all its insides melted away?
Spear and Fang never find out and neither do we.
It all started from a single wound
Good incentive to seek medical attention for animal bites, eh?
Yes indeed who knows what horrors it would end if let alone
So this is how the Land Before Time ended
Te doy valas en salvar
@@Commissar_Eiven yep yep yep
I like how spear understands what is going on even if he doesn’t understand the cause, he understood the sauropods actions and that it was in pain and that it’s death was a torture.
the best of all shows I ever saw.
Poor sauropod, it’s suffering at hand of the plague ended by the brutality of burning alive in lava, brutal and vile death.
Atleast ,now, it rest in peaces...
What was more of a torture, being burned alive or suffering as a zombie?
@@superhaven3647 both are roughly the same.
@@pmsm5829 you did not just-
@@superhaven3647 i would rather be burned alive, nobody wants to be a zombie for a good amount of time
1:18 this part wants to make me cry the creature was a friendly giant but it noticed a raptor acting a little weird but he continued eating but then the raptor bit it then it started to lose sanity and being a bit crazy it was a creature that was never designed to be like this but after it came infected it had no control it still has the seeing but he has to look around what hes done infected as he burns away R.I.P sauorpod you will be missed
Combining several ideas from the rest of the audience, I’d say the plague (really curse in this case) is the one doing the screaming at the end of its time.
And these are not screams of pain, but of rage. Rage, and fear. Rage that is killing is over, and fear that it can’t move to a new host
Seeing this benevolent and gentle creature being brutally taken over by this plauge,destroy everything it loved, suffering and writhing every step of the way, and finally being stopped by an excruciating demise is probably one of the most emotional things I've seen. I cried.
same bruh
rewatching for the 100th time. Now when i watch him walk up to the water and start drinking. With tears in its eyes and all over its face as it tries to drink life giving water. "maybe it will help" and than the projectile blood..... emotional damage
at least that plague can harm no living creature ever again
@@fishingmasterstudios9481 i hope
why we call it gentle?
A horrifying beginning... And a heart crushing ending. To think that the sauropod was only a poor soul that never asked for any of this. He could have lived a long, fulfilling life... Instead he became something that didn't even belong in this world. All he could do was exist, being that the worst torture he or any living being in history has ever gone through.
It's crude.
It's gut wrenching.
It's only a demonstration of what extremes nature can reach in order to inflict misery.
And it's terrifying as fuck.
So true bro
No my friend, no.
This isn't nature's will at work, at all. This is something... evil. Nature is about balance, a life trying to exist, and even in death a creature can give unto another. Even prions are simply something trying t oexist.
This thing was not trying to exist. Its plague did not spread. All it did was destroy and destroy, providing nothing to the envrionment even in death. A malignant will that lived as a sickness that infected an innocent but powerful creature so it could continue the kill.
@@taddad2641 Without balance all things crumble under themselves through chaos, the enemy of order. Mother nature needs it to function the way it has to, to not become meaningless and empty with no real depth in its structure. Balance is the placeholder of all life and death and some people refuse to see it that way.
Mans was just eating his favorite fruit when a dino duck bit his foot and it all went downhill from there
@@SuperBustyEva The eternal battle of good and evil. Chaos and Order. Life and Death.
A virus made of voodoo magic vs Two survivors of Nature.
The cycle continues.
OMG, this is one of the most scariest fictional illnesses I've ever seen, an inocent being Sauropod turned into a monster, killing his own herd, injuring himself & finally burned to death, this is so heavy! The look in the eyes of Spear & Fang says how fucked up was the whole situation!
the end scene is such a stunning & painful shot, study worthy truly on how to make the audience feel the emotion even without words. simply breathtaking
The immediate threat of the Argentinasaurus may be over but just remember:
Whatever infected that Parasaurolophus to begin with is still out there...
este capitulo no es lineal y se cuestiona que puede ser el octavo capitulo, en el sexto capitulo supondre que trata sobre de recuperacion de colmillo y el septimo durante su lucha por la supervivencia un evento desconocido mostrara el por que el parasarolopus se contagio llevandonos al octavo episodio
Or have died just like the Para did, since the host seem to rapidly decay to their death. The question would be: is there any kind of creature that can carry the disease and infect others without suffering it's zombifying effect?
Ryan Crepeau that is true. It could be an early episode that was scrapped initially though, and could’ve been aired later on anyway.
Imagine a trex got infected
Hans Alanson maybe future episodes we will see
I love the moment at 1:15... When the slow sad music comes in and you see the pure shock and sadness in Spears eyes... It's like he understands that it's not the animals fault but it's the decease which has infected it's corps...
Spear knows that these animals would never hurt another creature (unless threatened) and he is devastated seeing a gentle giant like this being brought to its knees...
I tell you, the word "genius" is thrown around A LOT these days, but I think Genndy is one of the few 2d animation creators who are truly breaking grounds in the animation industry with his vision. Primal definitely deserved those Emmy's and I hope it gets more in the future!
yeah shame he cant say the same thing to sym bionic titan that show was beautiful and was cancelled over stupid toys
@Dillon Sudduth i mean if they can bring back samurai Jack why sum bionic titan
Everything about the Sauropod's design is genuinely terrifying
Always hits me how Spear and Fang take a moment to just process what the actual fuck just happened to them
1:00 Take a minute to pause here and have a look at Spear's face.
Spear is not an ordinary caveman. He is a hardened fighter, willing and able to take on anything that comes after him, often to the death. What do you think he's thinking, after having seen something that he knows once was a more docile animal chasing him long after it should have been dead? What do you think he's thinking, knowing that he's certain that this animal was sick with a disease that was surely passed on to it?
That terror's not just the trauma of being pursued by something that isn't built for pursuit, nor is it the astonishment of watching something push through literal molten rock to kill him. It's the fear of knowing that there are many more things like this out there and that the dinosaur was, in the end, entirely innocent.
At 1:13 he looks like he's almost about to cry.
And no doubt he is still in shock at all that hitting at once, the scope of what if’s has just expanded for him immensely and he and fang are both bewildered at what it all means beyond the obvious. (Or at least Fang is aware that something very horrible and wrong occurred and is the more leery of any more potential surprises considering how many expectations were shattered that day)
I think it’s more he just can’t believe what he’s seeing because obviously he has never seen this disease before and must therefore think this poor animal was possessed by some demon as our own ancestors were documented to feel the same about situations like this where a docile human or animal goes rabid. In spears case however it obviously carries more weight literally and metaphorically as he knows this animal was a peaceful plant eater who became a mindless rampaging juggernaut and killed its entire family out of madness therefore giving spear and fang a faint bond with it as he hears it’s roars turn into pure agony in the end instead of madness making him wonder in the pure sadness at this creatures death not able to take his eyes away
Bruh he's a caveman, he probably doesn't know what fucking innocence is. He's shocked at the situation which is outlandish by any means but pushing highminded cocnept like that onto him is really weird.
@@Servellion you do realize cavemen were still human right ? They probably didn’t know what or how to describe what they were feeling about situations but they still were able to feel those emotions shit in situations like this they thought demons possessed the person or animal
Keep in mind Spear has no idea what a virus is , he knows about diseases, but he has no way of knowing nearly as much as we do now.
So he could only compare this monster to what he has seen and heard before
In his mind , for something to be alive it needs moving blood , muscle and organs. It needs to feel pain and have a reason to hunt. This creature had none of that.
In Spear and even Fang's minds it had no reason and it should be dead, but it KEPT GOING. It kept hunting them and only stopped when it literally disintigrated.
They might not know what made it this way or where it came from, but they knew it was something sick.
Something that killed just to kill....
Something that shouldn't exist....
I think something that also passed their Minds is the fact that the creature was an innocent, this virus took everything from it, it’s family, it’s freedom, it’s peace. In the eyes of fang and spear this creature is an innocent driven into a world of pain and suffering without it’s choice.and this made Spear realize, without the viruses’ intervention maybe the creature could have lived a peaceful normal life.
DEEP
@@KellyCalKelsey Deep, but I doubt that.
The sauropod was bitten by a parasaurolophus...so it must be a patient 0. So there are definetly more of theme.
Also its probably not a Virus, Viruses needs days to weeks and deseases like these should need more than 4 weeks if not even months or even years if not decades to do this damage to such a large animal, not seconds like here. It would infest mostly every cell within like one second
This virus has the same effects of rabies an an example is cujo the movie a dog who get bitten by a bat. An procced to go on a violent killing spree. An near the end cujo look like something out of a horror movie
I love how instead of celebrating their victory or focusing on how the threat was gone, they stayed and watched as it died. Even though it attacked them, they knew that it was sickly, sorrowful, and dying. It's existence, even if harmful, was sad
No creature deserves to suffer this cruel fate. Especially a gentle and peaceful one at that. 😭
If theres one thing I absolutely cannot praise any more
How expressive spear is at displaying emotion with no words. God its amazong
What gets me about this death is that the longneck never got to find a final resting spot. They never reached the ground before turning to ash to be lifted by the smoke. Its like they never actually got to find peace in the end. The agony never stopped, their mind got cleared just for the pain to swallow it again, they never got to realize and accept their fate.
They were dying, and then just gone. No rest, no rot, no memories. Nothing in between. There is nothing left, not even an unmarked grave.
Thats what got to me. Just how lost this creature was in the end, and how they never found their way back home again.
Because it would have made me feel a little less hopeless, I kinda do wish that the final scene had been of Spear and Fang painting on a cave wall, showing the whole herd as it was in its prime, filled with the loving, gentle, and docile creatures we saw at the beginning. Just to give them some sort of memorial, to not let their existence just fade into history.
It could also serve as a warning of the plague, if it ever resurfaces again.
and that it died where hell is
What 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
I believe it managed to find some measure of peace at the end. It knew what was wrong with it, it knew that if any part of it remained, the disease would just keep spreading and more creatures would suffer the same fate as it. So I choose to believe that as it burned, it was silently thanking Spear and Fang for bringing it to the Lava field, of all places. It may not have a final resting place, but it’s sacrifice ensured that no other living being would ever have to endure such horror ever again.
@@TheCorrodedMan do you think it's with it's herd in the afterlife?
@@joshuasebsebe3919 magic and cursed exist in the show, so an afterlife may not be that far fetched
This scene is even sadder now knowing the way the sauropod died was a foreshadowing of ….
Spear unfortunate demise
Thinking about it, I feel like the “plague” is more like a curse. The sauropod seemed indestructible, and didn’t die even after falling off a cliff and having its sides torn open; the only reason it stopped was because it was _literally incinerated._ It makes no sense for the parasaurolophus to have died after being flung at a tree.
I’m starting to wonder if the plague somehow _chooses_ its hosts, and only transfers to a new host when it finds something _stronger_ than its current host. When the parasaurolophus was flung away it’s pupils seemed to return to normal, perhaps indicating that the plague had “released” the parasaurolophus in favor of infecting the sauropod? If that’s the case, then it truly spells the end for the plague as it wasn’t able to transfer to a new host before the sauropod was incinerated.
Having said that, if it really _is_ a curse then where did it come from? It could have been created by the coven, but I’m not entirely sure if there would be any practical application for something like that. The show doesn’t shy away from more “paranormal” elements so I guess it could be some sort of full-body possession. I’m not sure, but I think the way the plague seemed to “leave” the parasaurolophus was important.
EDIT: Maybe the conditions for transfer are that a potential host be bitten or injured and then for it to _defeat_ the current host? Could that be why it didn’t transfer to the other sauropods, or was it simply because they were killed too quickly for the plague to properly infect them?
I think the plague only takes hold of living bodies, as it's a virus. I saw theories that it metabolizes everything but the brain and muscle to keep moving to spread the infection, this is why the sauropod is infected so quickly, and is already startibg to rot before it reached the watering hole that was just behind it. The reason we didn't see it's eyes change back when it died was because it was engulfed in flames at the moment the virus finally was killed inside the host, just before the host itself died and it released a nearly relieved bellow. The virus itself may also be able to be passed through the body of water the sauropod vomited up some of the beginnings of it's liquified insides into. The blood that the parasaur had ooze from it may have been its own liquid guts as well. Fish eating things that have contact with the infected water and then being eaten, things drinking the infected water in general, could spread the disease. It may not be gone forever.
@@ShatteredLament It’s… a disease that seems to act like _more_ than just a disease. I think the idea that it dissolves everything but the brain, muscle tissue, and skeletal structure is probably accurate. What speaks to a more paranormal element is that the other sauropods should have began to show _signs_ of infection even when their wounds proved fatal; there was no change in their pallor or their eyes even when they still would have taken at least 5-15 seconds to bleed out.
You could also argue that so long as the brain is intact that the host is basically invincible, but that the infection can’t preserve brain tissue and so the neurological function of the host gradually decreases. It seems like the plague turns its host into a killing machine, but with the gradual decline of cognition the host might become less driven; that might explain why the parasaurolophus was running around aimlessly at the beginning instead of immediately attacking the sauropod.
What this _still_ doesn’t explain is the significance of the pupil changing shape. While the assumption that this just _happens_ when the virus leaves the body is valid it doesn’t make much sense to give so much attention to something so insignificant. We know that when the eye changes when the madness sets in, and that it returns to normal when the host is freed from the madness; it stands to reason that if there was some significance in showing that the parasaurolophus had been “released” from the plague, then it stands to reason that there was some significance in showing that the sauropod _hadn’t_ been released from the plague. In animation this sort of thing is usually done intentionally to allude to something or another.
What that is I couldn’t tell you… I guess Genndy might have just wanted to include a poignant metaphor for relief in death or something, but not offering that same relief to a character as tragic as the sauropod seems weirdly intentional. I don’t know.
Despite having so few episodes right now, I feel like Spear is one of my favorite characters from Genndy's works.
Cavemen in media are often the butt of jokes and are portrayed as stupid lumbering brutes. While Spear is a lumbering brute, he shows a lot of deep character traits that a lot of other cavemen in movies or shows lack. He's able to empathize with the suffering of others, understand complex emotions, and also has been shown a great deal of simplistic brilliance such as using a pair of hard shelled beetles as a pair of improvised brass knuckles.
Yeah, people also commonly make cavemen kinda stupid yet in this they show that spear always knows what he’s doing
😭😔😟🙁 🤕😢😦
Spear is a human through and through and that's what I love about him
He isn't different from the animals of this world, as he's still a part of nature, but he has these qualities that you listed and it's what makes him despite it all deeply relatable